Royal MS 8 D XV

ALLEGORIAE in Vetus Testamentum et Evangelia, probably the work of Hugo de S. Victore, here attributed to Petrus Comestor; with sermons and homilies, &c., in Latin.

1. 'Allegorie hystoriarum magistri Petri dicti Com. mestoris': the Old Testament part, in nine books (cf. 7 C. II, 8 A. VIII, &c.). The original rubric title seems to be as given, but a second rubricator has substituted headings, 'Misteria libri Genesis', &c. Beg. 'In precedentibus premissa descriptione'. f. 1.

2. 'Incipit [liber decimus]. Lib[er x] continet sermones diuersos singulos de materia sua editos'; this, with a list of numbers i-xx, seems to have been the original heading, but there are actually but four sermons. A corrector has substituted the title 'Sermones quidam alii ad allegorias magistri P. non pertinentes' and refers for the rest of the sermons to f. 65 (artt. 4 sqq.). It is, however, unlikely that the sermons there are in any way connected with these four, which are in fact nos. i-iv of the anonymous Sermones Centum wrongly attributed to Hugo de S. Victore in Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxvii. 901, beg. 'Sanctificauil dominus tabernaculum suum [Ps. xlv. 5]: Habet, fratres karissimi, tabernacu- Ium'. Sermon iv, the original text of which, Aue Maris Stella, has been altered by the corrector to Is. xxiii. 4, Ait mare, is probably incomplete, ending at 'Omne enim datum optimum el omne donum', &c. For the very doubtful question of the authorship of these sermons see Hauréau's Not. et Extr. i, p. 32. f. 44.

3. 'Incipit liber undecimus' (the other rubricator gives misteria ewangelica'): the Allegoriae on the Gospels, divided here into three books, but otherwise following the arrangement of 8 A. VIII and the other MSS. The text, however, includes the first (Migne, ib. 767-774) of the two printed expositions of the Lord's Prayer and also the parable of the Corn of Wheat. Beg. 'Parentes primi generis humani'. f. 47.

4. Sermo de offendiculis mundi (without title, this description being extracted from the text): a tract. addressed in writing to some religious community. Beg. 'Quoniam sub nostra conuiuendi modernitate'. f. 65.

5. A sermon on Wisdom x. 17. Beg. 'Reddet dominus mercedem, &c. : Nolite hodie exspectare'. f. 66.

8. 'Incipiunt sermones dominicales' : homilies on the gospels beginning with the Pars Aestivalis, being the same collection (but imperfect at the end) as in 4 B. VII, art. 3 (cf. also 7 C. VII, art. 9). Beg. 'Cum essel sero die illa, &c. [Dom. i post Pasch.]: Hoc in ipso die resurrectionis'. Ends in the sermon on Cum turba plurima [Sexagesima]. f. 67 b. Vellum; ff. 78. 103/4 in. x 71/4 in. XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (vi⁶). Double columns. Sec. fol. 'ordinibus'. Ornamental initals in colours. From the Theyer library. Theyer sale-cat. no. 92 ; CMA. 6514.